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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (44849)7/13/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Dear Joan,

The whole discussion of race and IQ is impossible to resolve because the people who do the work cannot yet measure the genetic component of their experimental subjects. Until it is possible to distinguish the particular alleles carried by one person from those carried by another, they are simply guessing that subject 1324 is "black" or "white." No one I know working on subjects where "race" is important is satisfied with the definitions. All human populations are descended from different human strains. Very few populations have been isolated for long enough to be genetically different enough to matter except with some genes more related to appearance than functionality.
We know, of course, that particular populations display marked superiority in certain functions are obvious. Polynesians are genetically superior to Japanese in Sumo (or to anyone else, for that matter). But I think it will turn out that the genes that allow them to have thick strong bones and bulk up very large and still be able to move will turn out to be more important than the whole set of genes that they have. I also believe that if we could get a gorilla reclassified as "man" that the average full-grown adult male gorilla could easily be trained into a Yokozuna. It is not the 96 percent of genes that men and gorillas have in common that matters, but a very small set particularly suited to the task that make the difference.
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